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“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
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“Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.”
― Educated
― Educated
“I mean, I’d thought about where I would be in five years, what I wanted, but I guess I didn’t realize I’d already headed down a path.”
― Perfect
― Perfect
“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
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“I wish I didn’t want space, time to figure out what I want from life, but I can’t ignore it.”
― Perfect
― Perfect
“Encounters may help us discover our inner world, reveal us to ourselves and unshackle us from prejudices, but still, they can disrupt our thinking patterns when they make us too dependent or needy. However, if they give voice to our life choices and offer inner freedom, they inspire and enlighten us. ("I seek you")”
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“Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.”
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“The worst decisions in life we make are always the one we make out of fear.”
― Born of Betrayal
― Born of Betrayal
“Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or anything that you think, speak, or do, mindfulness has the power to align you with expressing your highest Self, for your personal and our collective highest good.
Via mindfulness we can make the choices today, that will pre-pave the desired outcomes for all of our tomorrows. Via mindfulness we put ourselves in the flow of life, where life is no longer a series of "good" and "bad" moments, but about living with ease, contentment, wellbeing, and inner peace. Ultimately mindfulness requires action, with the first step being to make mindfulness a priority in your life.”
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Via mindfulness we can make the choices today, that will pre-pave the desired outcomes for all of our tomorrows. Via mindfulness we put ourselves in the flow of life, where life is no longer a series of "good" and "bad" moments, but about living with ease, contentment, wellbeing, and inner peace. Ultimately mindfulness requires action, with the first step being to make mindfulness a priority in your life.”
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“I don't know how to want something without turning it into a violence against myself.
I don’t know how to like things. I only know how to obsess until I ruin them or ruin me.
I see something beautiful—a woman, a dream, a moment of silence—and I don't just reach for it. I set myself on fire to see if the light will attract it.
I turn every ambition into an ulcer and every love affair into a car crash, just because I don't believe I’m allowed to have the thing unless I destroy myself to get it.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
I don’t know how to like things. I only know how to obsess until I ruin them or ruin me.
I see something beautiful—a woman, a dream, a moment of silence—and I don't just reach for it. I set myself on fire to see if the light will attract it.
I turn every ambition into an ulcer and every love affair into a car crash, just because I don't believe I’m allowed to have the thing unless I destroy myself to get it.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“There's death and then there is first morning after letting someone go…
That split second where you reach across the sheets and your hand finds nothing but cold cotton.
That’s the shittiest feeling in the world.
The sun comes up like a police spotlight, demanding answers you don’t have.The coffee tastes like ash. The birds singing outside sound like they’re mocking you.
You realize you have to relearn how to be a singular noun, and frankly, I’m not sure how to do that just yet”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
That split second where you reach across the sheets and your hand finds nothing but cold cotton.
That’s the shittiest feeling in the world.
The sun comes up like a police spotlight, demanding answers you don’t have.The coffee tastes like ash. The birds singing outside sound like they’re mocking you.
You realize you have to relearn how to be a singular noun, and frankly, I’m not sure how to do that just yet”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them..
The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust 'em.
They’re boring. But a scar?
A heart that’s been kicked around the block a few times? That’s just poetry.
I myself is damaged with a hell lot of flaws stitched together with some good intentions”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust 'em.
They’re boring. But a scar?
A heart that’s been kicked around the block a few times? That’s just poetry.
I myself is damaged with a hell lot of flaws stitched together with some good intentions”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Here’s a spoiler alert: The 65-year-old version of you? Not that much fun.”
You are saving your joy for 65? Work now, live later. Bullsh*t.That’s a bad bet.You’re banking on a body that might not work and a world that might not exist.
You’re pushing all your chips to the end of the table, saving the best wine for a party nobody’s gonna show up to.
The world might blow up tomorrow So Eat that fruit, drink that rum, and kiss that girl tonight?
Coz Tonight you still look good.
LIVE, DAMN YOU!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
You are saving your joy for 65? Work now, live later. Bullsh*t.That’s a bad bet.You’re banking on a body that might not work and a world that might not exist.
You’re pushing all your chips to the end of the table, saving the best wine for a party nobody’s gonna show up to.
The world might blow up tomorrow So Eat that fruit, drink that rum, and kiss that girl tonight?
Coz Tonight you still look good.
LIVE, DAMN YOU!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Potential is just a nice word for 'hasn't done sh*t yet.'
Stop romanticizing to your own potential.
The world doesn't pay you for what you could do. It pays you for what you f*cking did.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
Stop romanticizing to your own potential.
The world doesn't pay you for what you could do. It pays you for what you f*cking did.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“You're sitting there vibrating with 'talent' while the swine are out there eating the crop!
Potential is for weaklings and politicians! It means absolutely nothing until you pull the trigger!
The Beast doesn't care what you might do!
It only fears what you did!
Create or die! Stop worshipping your own shadow!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
Potential is for weaklings and politicians! It means absolutely nothing until you pull the trigger!
The Beast doesn't care what you might do!
It only fears what you did!
Create or die! Stop worshipping your own shadow!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“You can't find love because you think there’s always someone better one swipe away.
"You think you’re discerning?
You are treating connection like an Amazon cart.
You keep adding, but you never hit 'Buy.'
You are terrified to choose one because you think you deserve the jackpot. But there is no jackpot. There is just another human being as broken as you are.
And let me tell you, the kitchen closes eventually.
You’re going to end up alone, sitting at the best table in the house, with an empty plate.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
"You think you’re discerning?
You are treating connection like an Amazon cart.
You keep adding, but you never hit 'Buy.'
You are terrified to choose one because you think you deserve the jackpot. But there is no jackpot. There is just another human being as broken as you are.
And let me tell you, the kitchen closes eventually.
You’re going to end up alone, sitting at the best table in the house, with an empty plate.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“You treat happiness like it’s a destination.
Like if you just get the right job, the right partner, the right seasoning, you’ll arrive. You won’t.
Happiness is not a state of being. It’s a moment. It’s a cold beer on a hot day. That’s it.
The rest of existence? It’s work. It’s pain. It’s uncertainty.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
Like if you just get the right job, the right partner, the right seasoning, you’ll arrive. You won’t.
Happiness is not a state of being. It’s a moment. It’s a cold beer on a hot day. That’s it.
The rest of existence? It’s work. It’s pain. It’s uncertainty.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Every time you order the steak, you are murdering the lobster."
You think choice is freedom? No. Choice is a massacre.
To choose this life, you had to murder the 1,000 other versions of you who made different choices.
You aren't sad because you're lost; you're grieving the ghosts of the lives you didn't have the guts to live.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
You think choice is freedom? No. Choice is a massacre.
To choose this life, you had to murder the 1,000 other versions of you who made different choices.
You aren't sad because you're lost; you're grieving the ghosts of the lives you didn't have the guts to live.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Okay’ is the missionary position of the soul."
They want you 'okay.' Not great. Not terrible. Just... functional.
The Industrial Complex of 'Okay' is designed to keep you just comfortable enough not to riot, but too sedated to actually live.
Don’t settle for 'fine.' Go find something that either kills you or saves you. But for God’s sake, don’t just be ‘okay’.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
They want you 'okay.' Not great. Not terrible. Just... functional.
The Industrial Complex of 'Okay' is designed to keep you just comfortable enough not to riot, but too sedated to actually live.
Don’t settle for 'fine.' Go find something that either kills you or saves you. But for God’s sake, don’t just be ‘okay’.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“I am running out of dirt, people..
I've got dead dreams, dead romances, dead versions of my my ego….
it's like a massacre in my heart …
I wonder how many graves I have to dig to bury everything dead inside of me
But then again... maybe you don't bury them.
Maybe you just pull up a chair, pour a drink, and keep the ghosts company.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
I've got dead dreams, dead romances, dead versions of my my ego….
it's like a massacre in my heart …
I wonder how many graves I have to dig to bury everything dead inside of me
But then again... maybe you don't bury them.
Maybe you just pull up a chair, pour a drink, and keep the ghosts company.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“He would have made more money in the toolroom, progressing up from chargehand to foreman; he would have made more money as an instructor in a technical college. He would not have made more happiness than he had now attained.”
― Trustee from the Toolroom
― Trustee from the Toolroom
“Its strange how easy it is to vanish from someone’s story….
Just Yesterday, you were the main character in the god damn novel of her life.
And Today? You're an Fucking extra.
A typo.
That the absolute cruelty of the human mind.....
You have zero say in who keeps your memorioes in the velvet box, and who leaves them to rot”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
Just Yesterday, you were the main character in the god damn novel of her life.
And Today? You're an Fucking extra.
A typo.
That the absolute cruelty of the human mind.....
You have zero say in who keeps your memorioes in the velvet box, and who leaves them to rot”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“The shrinks will tell you obsessions are curable.
You dry out, you get clean, you take up meditation, and you learn to sit quietly in a room.
But let’s be honest. People built like us don't get ‘cured.'
You drop one obsession and you violently latch onto the next!
From politics to whiskey to the absolute, terrifying pursuit of the Truth!
You swing from madness to madness, because the alternative is a slow, agonizing death by boredom!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
You dry out, you get clean, you take up meditation, and you learn to sit quietly in a room.
But let’s be honest. People built like us don't get ‘cured.'
You drop one obsession and you violently latch onto the next!
From politics to whiskey to the absolute, terrifying pursuit of the Truth!
You swing from madness to madness, because the alternative is a slow, agonizing death by boredom!”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Look, we all like to think we have our shit together.
You start to think you've seen it all.
You got your armor on, your guard up, and you know exactly what's waiting around the next corner.
Until the collision......
We all eventually meet that one women we just weren't prepared for.
You aren't ready for the way she looks at you. You aren't ready for the things she make you crave.
And suddenly, all those walls you built don't mean a damn thing.
But heaven help you, you buy the ticket and take the ride anyway.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
You start to think you've seen it all.
You got your armor on, your guard up, and you know exactly what's waiting around the next corner.
Until the collision......
We all eventually meet that one women we just weren't prepared for.
You aren't ready for the way she looks at you. You aren't ready for the things she make you crave.
And suddenly, all those walls you built don't mean a damn thing.
But heaven help you, you buy the ticket and take the ride anyway.”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“There’s a quiet kind of poetry in knowing your place in this world.
Now, some have the magic touch—they can take a little fire and a few raw pieces of the earth and turn it into a damn symphony.
I ain't one of ‘em.
But I’ll tell you what I was born for.
I was born to lean against this very counter, nursing a glass of something strong, watching watching the beautiful way her hands move.
My art is keeping the stories rolling, being the low, steady voice in the background while she work her magic in fucking kitchen .”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
Now, some have the magic touch—they can take a little fire and a few raw pieces of the earth and turn it into a damn symphony.
I ain't one of ‘em.
But I’ll tell you what I was born for.
I was born to lean against this very counter, nursing a glass of something strong, watching watching the beautiful way her hands move.
My art is keeping the stories rolling, being the low, steady voice in the background while she work her magic in fucking kitchen .”
― Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“They knew well how the grey storm, the wind dog's master, can rise in minutes out of the Atlantic, and snatch off all the colours, twist the heads from the flowers, clear the washing lines, anger the lake, jump on every beast's back and hammer his sides, and cut the smile from the sun's face with one swipe.
The only one not caught out at all was the mountain, who wound a cloud round his bald rock at first spit, and accepted the inevitable.
This was the land that had made Miceal; made him of darkness and thought, from rocks and waters of endurance, of the quick light.”
― The Horse of Selene
The only one not caught out at all was the mountain, who wound a cloud round his bald rock at first spit, and accepted the inevitable.
This was the land that had made Miceal; made him of darkness and thought, from rocks and waters of endurance, of the quick light.”
― The Horse of Selene
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